The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
Page 52 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
But in the meantime, there was blame to be doled out. The meeting had quickly devolved into a shouting match, Guilder taking verbal punch after verbal punch. He felt relieved when he was banished from the room, knowing that the situation was out of his hands. Henceforth, the military would deal with this the way they dealt with all problems: by shooting everything in sight.
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Posted by Kerry Burgess at 4:50 AM
Number 878: The Farthest Man From Home
I am Kerry Burgess. This is what I think.
Thursday, November 01, 2018
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 7:46 AM Thursday, September 15, 2011
Hyperspace
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 3/16/1991 ( my first successful test of my hyperspace portal ) is 9265 days
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
(Amazon Kindle Version)
"The Twelve" is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are products of the author's imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
excerpt ends Posted by Kerry Burgess at 4:50 AM Thursday, November 01, 2018
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
Page 52 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
In hindsight, Guilder might have put the situation more diplomatically. But the CDC's projections spoke for themselves. Three weeks, four at the outside, and the virus would take out Chicago, St. Louis, Salt Lake. Six weeks and they were looking at the coasts.
Vampires, for Christ's sake. What had he been thinking?
What had *everyone* been thinking?
And yet there was no doubt that Lear had been on to something. The great Jonas Lear - even Guilder was intimidated by the man, a Harvard biochemist with an IQ of a zillion who had, for all intents and purposes, invented the field of paleovirology, retrieving and resuscitating ancient organisms for modern use. Within his professional circle it was generally assumed that Lear was a shoo-in, someday, for a Nobel Prize. Okay, maybe using death row inmates hadn't been the smartest move. They'd gotten ahead of themselves there. And certainly Lear wasn't rowing with his oars entirely in the water. But you had to admit the idea had possibilities. Such as, for instance, not dying. Ever. A matter in which Guilder had lately found himself holding a not-inconsiderable personal stake.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 01/24/07 5:12 PM
Based on my theory, I started Princeton University on 9/2/1965.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: August 6, 2006
I met Diane Broch at that night club in Wisconsin.
It hit me like a weight a few hours ago: Arlington Heights. That was the suburb Diane lived in.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/2/2006 12:19 PM
Today is the day I remember as Diane Broch’s birthday. She was born in 1965 and was exactly 2 months older than me.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 9/22/2006 11:32 PM
Today I remembered a letter she sent me in 1987 after I broke up with her shortly after I reported to the Wainwright.
Posted by Kerry Burgess - H.V.O.M at 7:35 AM Sunday, April 10, 2011
I just caught the association. Her birthday was 2 September 1965. I always remember that because it was exactly two months before my birthdate.
I don't recall the name of the bar but I remember it was a popular place and it was a fairly long drive from the US Navy base in North Chicago to that dance club in Wisconsin. There were a lot of women in that bar that night. I walked up and asked her to dance and we dated for a long time after that. I was thinking of a her again recently when I watched the 1986 film "Short Circuit" on television.
She was from Arlington Heights. I stayed there several times in that condo in Arlington Heights.
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
Page 54 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
A knock at the door broke his train of thought; Guilder swiveled from the window to see Nelson, the department's chief technical officer, standing in the doorway. Christ, what now?
"I have good news and bad news," Nelson announced.
Nelson was dressed, as always, in a black T-shirt and jeans, his dirty feet shoved into a pair of flip-flops. A fast-talking Rhodes scholar with not one but two PhDs from MIT - biochemistry and advanced information systems - Nelson was the smartest guy in the building by a mile, a fact he knew only too well. He still had the young person's predisposition to regard the world as a series of vaguely irritating problems created by people less cool and smart than he was. Though their relationship was cordial, Nelson had a habit of treating Guilder like a doddering elderly parent, a figure of respect but no longer quite worthy - which was exasperating, coming from a guy who seemed to comb his hair ever fourth day, though not, Guilder had to admit, entirely unwarranted. He was twenty-eight to Guilder's fifty-seven, and everything about Nelson conspired to make him feel old.
"Any sign of her?"
"Nada." Nelson scratched his scraggly beard. "We're not getting any of them."
Guilder rubbed his eyes, which stung of sleeplessness. He needed to go home for a shower and a clean suit. He hadn't left the office in two days, grabbing only a few winks on the couch and living on junk from the vending machines. He was having trouble with his fingers, too. Numbness, tingling.
"You said something about good news?"
"Depends on how you look at it. From a free-speech point of view, probably it's not the best, but it looks like somebody finally shut down that lunatic in Denver. My guess would be NSA, or else one of Lear's little pets finally got to him. Either way, the dude's off-line in a permanent way."
Last Stand in Denver: Guilder had watched the videos, like everybody else. You had to hand it to the guy for balls. Theories abounded about his identity, the general consensus being that he was ex-military, Special Forces or SEALs.
"So what's the bad?"
"New numbers just came in from the CDC. It seems to original algorithm failed to take into proper account just how much these things like to eat. Which I could have told them if they'd asked. Either that or some summer intern moved a decimal place when he was daydreaming about the last time he boned his girlfriend."
Sometimes talking with Nelson felt like trying to corral a five-year-old. A genius five-year-old, but still. "Please, just spit it out."
Nelson shrugged. "As it now stands, based on the most recent projections, it appears we're looking at a more succint timeline. Something on the order of thirty-nine days."
"For the coasts you mean?"
"Um, not exactly."
"What then?"
"The entire North American continent."
From 3/16/1991 ( my first successful major test of my ultraspace matter transportation device as Kerry Wayne Burgess the successful Ph.D. graduate ) To 10/16/2012 is 7885 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 6/5/1987 ( as Kerry Burgess my official United States Navy documents includes: Earned NEC 1189 - Based on graduation from the Terrier Mk 152 Computer Complex course - Naval Guided Missiles School, Dam Neck, Virginia Beach, Virginia ) is 7885 days
From 7/13/1954 ( premiere US film "Victory at Sea" ) To 10/16/2012 is 21280 days
21280 = 10640 + 10640
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 12/20/1994 ( in Bosnia as Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps captain this day is my United States Navy Cross medal date of record ) is 10640 days
From 8/11/2006 ( referenced in text below here: from my private journal as Kerry Burgess ) To 10/16/2012 is 2258 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 1/8/1972 ( premiere US TV movie "The Astronaut" ) is 2258 days
From 7/15/1948 ( premiere US film "Superman" ) To 6/29/1995 ( the Mir space station docking of the United States space shuttle Atlantis orbiter vehicle mission STS-71 includes me Kerry Wayne Burgess the United States Marine Corps officer and United States STS-71 pilot astronaut and my 3rd official United States of America National Aeronautics Space Administration orbital flight of 4 overall ) is 17150 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my birth date in Antlers Oklahoma USA and my birthdate as the known official United States Marshal Kerry Wayne Burgess and active duty United States Marine Corps officer ) To 10/16/2012 is 17150 days
Other posts by me on this topic includes: https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/department-of-special-weapons.html
https://hvom.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-astronaut.html
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from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: August 11, 2006
I wrote a while back about not being able to eat a steak because it reminded me of a snake I had killed earlier. Yesterday I was thinking in that context about a few other times I couldn't eat dinner because I was sick to my stomach.
from my private journal as Kerry Burgess: 04/08/08 1:44 PM
The reason for the high school setting of "Fast Times At Ridgemont High," starring my wife, is that I never went to high school. I did not go to junior high school, I didn't go to elementary school or even kindegarten. Unless you call Gemini 12 a kindegarten, that is. But the reason for that movie is that I wanted to see if I could create something that would appeal to a wide audience of people who would identify with the movie despite that I had no actual experience myself. Of course, I was a psychologist, along with my other roles, so I had given a lot of study to these topics
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From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:05 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: computer revolution
Kerry Burgess wrote:
http://news.com.com/1946+ENIAC/2009-1006_3-6038974.html?tag=nefd.lede
This computer, unfurled to scientists on Feb. 14, helped launch the computer revolution and the U.S. tech dominance for decades. Few suspected actually what those next 60 years would bring. The evolution of computing devices has come a long way since the days of ENIAC.
[The way I see it, this was the modern equivalent of man inventing fire. Today's PC are a much improved version of that invention, in essence, a match or a butane ligther. Software is the fuel for that energy source. I don't think we have reached a point yet where you could compare the computer to the combustion engine. After that would be the progress that produces the computer equivalent of a jet engine. Of course, some marketing weenie is going to read this and start trying to refer to their products as jet engines.]
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 14 February 2006 excerpt ends]
JOURNAL ARCHIVE: From: Kerry Burgess
Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 1:05 PM
To: Kerry Burgess
Subject: Re: computer revolution
http://news.com.com/1952+UNIVAC/2009-1006_3-6038974-2.html?tag=st.next
1952: UNIVAC
Univac was the primary product of the Eckert-Mauchly computer company. Not only was it faster, but it demonstrated the shift from base-ten to binary code. A Univac was used by CBS news to predict the outcome of the 1952 Presidential Election. That event brought computing into the public eye, according to many historians. It wouldn't be long before scientific focus shifted to microprocessors.
[Not only was it binary machine language, but to manually program it, you had to start with base-10, convert that mentally to base-8, and then mentally convert that to base-2, or binary.]
[JOURNAL ARCHIVE 14 February 2006 excerpt ends]
The Twelve: A Novel (Book Two of the Passage Trilogy)
Justin Cronin
Page 55 of 593 (Amazon Kindle Version)
A gray shadow swooped over Guilder's vision; he had to sit down.
"A response is already in the works at Central," Nelson continued. "My guess is they'll try to burn it out. Major population centers first, then anyone else who gets left behind."
"Christ almighty."
Nelson frowned. "Small price to pay, on the whole. I know what I'd do if I were, say, the president of Russia. No way I'd let this thing jump the pond."
The man was right, and Guilder knew it. He realized his right hand had begun to tremble. He reached for it with his left, trying to bring the spasms under control while also making the gesticulation seem natural.
"You okay there, boss?"
His right foot had begun to shake as well. He felt the incomprehensible urge to laugh. Probably it was the stress.
- posted by Kerry Burgess 7:26 AM Pacific Time Spokane Valley Washington USA Friday 02 November 2018
